Andy Millne

Certainly not helping to promote other local community services. I can vouch for that!

Interesting. Same engine in the Focus ST

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And pressing them NOT to put obstacles in the way of those people attempting to do this

Someone else here that wishes to applaud your spirit, but I'm curious, what are your plans beyond the actual facebook group? Once again this sounds like a case of "let's form a facebook group to get peoples attention" without any real thought beyond that. There are now several of these groups and the more often people are invited to them (with no follow through) the more diluted the potential effectiveness becomes. Another group isn't really necessary as between this website with it's strong links to community groups and town councillors, the Xmas lights group and a couple of the smaller ones the vast majority of people are already contactable. So my question is what do you want to do with this audience? You have people waiting to flick the switch if there's a meaningful plan? Otherwise I'd urge you not to unwittingly demoralise people further. There needs to be some substance in any proposal. It's no good saying "we want this" we need to be saying "we want this, this is how we think we can make it happen, what are you going to do to help us?"

Do you have to do all 5?

You wouldn't be complaining if Banksy "tagged" your wall. http://frigginloon.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/banksy-turns-derelict-pub-into-valuable-real-estate/

I've just walked past it and didn't take a photo, sorry. Will next time I pass. It's got some "good" graffiti and some pointless scrawling over the top of it. Pretty sure there's an aardvark in there.

Doesn't he have a twin on the wall by the Gap site?

Keep hearing things about the snowboard cross being a good one to watch. Not seen any of it yet though.

Yep, I'm with Monsta on this one. http://www.bedlington.co.uk/community/index.php?app=core&module=search&do=quick_search&search_sort_by=date&search_sort_order=desc&search_term=wetherspoon&search_filter_app[forums]=1

I've always been confused as to how people can possibly get caught up in Phishing scams but now I know Hilarious.

Read the comments All because this article temporarily replaced the actual facebook as number one in Google for "Facebook Login" http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_login.php

Might also be a good way to encourage news contributions.

Can't believe I'm doing this... http://workspace.officelive.com/en-GB/Learn-More I feel ill now.

Now do you realise why getting people to share printable "posters" is not as easy as it first appears Malcolm There is a file format for this purpose known as pdf which is intended to display the same on any platform unfortunately average joe is usually only aware of Microsoft Word.

Cheers Monsta

should have stuck with typewriters

Sorry if you don't have a copy of office. Seems the old bill haven't heard of PDFs Still, it's one step up from the typewriter the NYPD have. NHW bedlington 6 feb 10 new.doc

Found this which shows "Mitchell Robert, governor of the workhouse" which would suggest one did exist. That's the Parson & White trade directory from 1827.

Communication is a massive problem here and that is one of the things we are improving with the website. People can voice an opinion and have it reach the decision makers and the decision makers can canvas opinion at no cost. The people in the town should be making an effort to find out these things and a quick glance at the news pages once a week will give them all the information they need. There's even an RSS feed here you can subscribe to and not miss a thing. Expecting this independant group of people to make sure everybody in the town is aware of it is unrealistic. A leaflet drop costs hundreds of pounds out of money that could be better spent elsewhere especially as the vast majority will just ignore it. As an example 5,000 flyers personally hand delivered by myself resulted in less than 20 new members here. After delivering these flyers I asked one of my neighbours what they thought of it and got the response "Oh is that what that was, I remember seeing something with Bedlington on it."!! I know 3g is in the process of putting together a monthly email that will go out to all members as well so the people that aren't regular visitors will be made aware of issues in the town and hopefully may become more regular visitors as a result. If you've got any other suggestions on how we can help make people aware I'd love to hear them too as there's always scope for improvement. Let's not forget the guys at SNRG as well who are dedicated to getting set up to help as well. here's the news article you missed http://www.bedlington.co.uk/2009/08/bedlington-base-for-county-radio/

it's also at a minimum 38 million kilometres closer to the sun.

http://www.bedlington.co.uk/2009/12/community-group-looks-to-reverse-closure-trend/ More will follow as more is known.

Failing that there's the only thing likely to remain... The Job Centre.